narrowing / ˈnær oʊ /

狭窄化缩小狭窄的缩窄

narrowing4 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective

nar·row·er, nar·row·est.

  1. of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
  2. limited in extent or space; affording little room: narrow quarters.
  3. limited in range or scope: a narrow sampling of public opinion.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to decrease in width or breadth: This is where the road narrows.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to make narrower.
  2. to limit or restrict: to narrow an area of search; to narrow down a contest to three competitors.
  3. to make narrow-minded: Living in that village has narrowed him.
n. 名词 noun
  1. a narrow part, place, or thing.
  2. a narrow part of a valley, passage, or road.
  3. narrows, a narrow part of a strait, river, ocean current, etc.
  4. The Narrows, a narrow strait from upper to lower New York Bay, between Staten Island and Long Island. 2 miles long; 1 mile wide.

narrowing 近义词

n. 名词 noun

shortening

narrowing构成的短语

  • narrow escape
  • straight and narrow

更多narrowing例句

  1. The wind-whipped blaze’s precise extent and the number of casualties, as people ran through narrow streets to escape, can only be guessed.
  2. In a mosaic, only certain combinations of these two parameters work, forming a narrow swath of shapes that could possibly result from something falling apart.
  3. On the upper floors, narrow corridors make it easy to bump into people on their way out of a side gallery.
  4. To narrow it down, Tuchman and her co-authors focused on the top 500 brands as measured by dollar sales.
  5. Whatever kind you get, an extender will narrow the space between your skin and the top of your mask.
  6. Then a slowing down, the sound narrowing from a dark mass to a single line.
  7. This strain of enterovirus seems unusually provocative in irritating lower airways, thereby causing airway narrowing.
  8. The village sits along a narrowing vein of the Rio Negro, a tributary of the mighty Amazon.
  9. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 295 people aboard crashed and suspicion is narrowing on pro-Russian separatists.
  10. Perhaps most importantly, normalizing marriage is a narrowing, rather than an expanding, of sexual possibility.
  11. He missed Flora's gay letter of gossip, and looked with narrowing lids at the pile of newspapers.
  12. Then graduate the shades back again to white, narrowing the first row of white with the larger mesh.
  13. Unlike his pony prototypes, his was a lengthy, arched neck, held high from narrowing withers and a short back.
  14. And as the narrowing process progressed, she said, the exhausting or vampire quality grew and grew.
  15. Opportunities were narrowing down rapidly—the canoe was perilously close, and so many of his bullets went astray.